rolling careerist hacks, awkward pandering, transparently manipulative thread 2022

Finnish folk music duo Akkajee are releasing a creepy video for their song "Lastenkerääjä" (translation: child collector):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEtmTsa5zvo

:O

https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/track/sjsj-ii

Less welcome: Anything that's like "the new pop music is digitally clipping pokemon voices" or "I slowed and reverbed the Goonies"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol dying at this

honestly there is a thin line between people still looping and blooping like it was still the 1980s and ... slowed and reverbed the Goonies

Some stuff I've bookmarked for Bandcamp Friday in March:

p2p- Impossible Burger
https://karenng.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-burger
(Karen Ng with two others does musique concrète, ambient, noise vibes, good shit)

Rachel Beetz- Unofficial
https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/album/unofficial
(Flautist does eerie noise experimentation, alternately very dreamy and absolutely crushing)

Robbie Lee and Lea Bertucci- Winds Bells Falls
https://telegraphharp.bandcamp.com/album/winds-bells-falls
(whizzy tape manipulation, rare bells, and antique whistles)

(Admittedly cribbed list from Foxy Digitalis, which in its new iteration has been a nice home for weird and under the radar stuff)

agreed, it's super useful. that dude posts a LOT

some sparing dips into out-there beats (batida, gqom, footwork, singeli)

Hey now, between this and the ravey hardcore continuum thread, my club music would be left with very little!

Yeah, tbh I rarely do the Patreon thing but I did for Foxy D because he clearly spends so much time and energy listening to things and writing about them and communicating with people.

this maya shenfeld album is gorgeous

also love those biosphere and beast nest records linked at the start of the thread (just going through sorry!)

some stuff i've enjoyed recently that i think belong here:
Tran Uy Duc - Came
Martin Glass - 21 Commissions For Business
Mike Cooper - Oceans of Milk and Treacle

Pikachu!

Jesus I'm going to end up spending a lot of money on Bandcamp Friday in March, it seems.

New Pan American is a dusty, pastoral little drive

https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/the-patience-fader

fell in love with this record over the weekend:
https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/grounded

not on bandcamp at the moment but the new album from debit, "the long count" is worth a listen

A friend gave me this one over the weekend, truly strange and "sketchy" record with a vibe that's somehow both unsettling and relaxing.

https://horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com/album/catch-up-with-what-party

A few things from Epic Games Friday:

This split tape from Sullow/The Silver Field is really cool, Sullow is psychedelic banjo Henry Flynt hillbilly vibes with some wild improv drumming, The Silver Field reminds me a bit of Current 93 but more chill and not as annoying, really sick tbh, been listening to it non-stop.
https://betwixtbetweentapes.bandcamp.com/album/betwixt-between-8

I mean, you could call this jazz, but it's so fucking weird, Mike Cooper still has it
https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/oceans-of-milk-and-treacle

Sublimity defined with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Alex Varty
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pacifica-koral-reef

Yeah, I really wanna hear that Smith/Kaiser/Varty joint in full

Yeh love that Mike Cooper record, will check the other two

Came out last year, can't remember where it caught my eye, but this is pretty sinister, liminal electronic noise

https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/a-o-a

This record is really something else.

https://matchess.bandcamp.com/album/sonescent

It reads like hyperbole, but it is doing a lot of interesting work psychoacoustically— hi-pitched sine waves will emerge from nostalgic folk-pop into muffled fiddling...Like how Basic Channel was doing "a basement techno club from several blocks away," this is like "someone fiddling with synthesis while a band practices next door and also the dumpster is being unloaded outside the window." Really neat.

it's a wonderful record, love the outtro

some recent stuff i've enjoyed

https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/album/addle
"Marking a change from the high-octane jungle tekno braindance for which he is most commonly known, here we find the Polish American musician in a more melodic and zen-like place of peace, which is ergonomic and decluttered, whilst also bittersweet and tinged with melancholy."

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-from-the-land-islands
interesting story behind this on the page, the final track is absolutely stunning

https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/found-myself-or-just-i-m-dead
Gerry Franke - Found Myself or Just I’m Dead

https://adelamede.bandcamp.com/album/szabads-g-3
"Szabadság is a navigation. This debut by Adela Mede, recorded in her family home on the Slovakian border with Hungary, searches through the personal, familial, cultural, folkloric and geographic of her past and present."

Some friends have been recording very strange duets under the name Glovenathans. I like this new one, seems to be mostly guitar duets or guitar w/ synth.

https://smilingmind.bandcamp.com/album/nights-on-broadway

very much enjoying this

fell in love with this record over the week

https://duncanmarquiss.bandcamp.com/album/wires-turned-sideways-in-time

"Experimental electronic guitar manipulations intertwine with wandering acoustic ambience. One foot in 1970s Germany and the other in the woods, rivers and mountains of northeast Scotland."

only a couple of tracks on the bandcamp but the whole album is on spotify

Rough-hewn and exhilarating, EL Khat's second album "Albat Alawi Op.99" is a deep dive into leader Eyal el Wahab's Yemenite roots and their inspired re-imaginings. A careening orchestra of percussion, horns, strings, electricity and el Wahab's own DIY instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.

https://elkhat-music.bandcamp.com/album/albat-alawi-op-99

couple of comps i've been enjoying

https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mensajes-del-agua-nuevos-sonidos-desde-per-vol-1
"This compilation presents a selection of young Peruvian artists who have in common a taste for electronic and electroacoustic sounds. It offers a panoramic view of the new directions in electronic and experimental music made in Peru."

https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/viento-sur
nice little review up on https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/various-artists-viento-sur-review

really liking viento sur, thanks for that

fell in love with this record over the week

https://duncanmarquiss.bandcamp.com/album/wires-turned-sideways-in-time

yeah this record is fantastic

Ann Eysermans – For Trainspotters Only
https://cortizona.bandcamp.com/album/for-trainspotters-only

gimmicky narrative ✔️
transparently manipulative ✔️

"Prelude For Four Diesel Locomotives And Harp" is so sick, especially on headphones

reminder that Daniel Menche is still releasing stuff and it rules:

https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/charred

agreed, had a good walk to this today

Enjoying Éliane Radigue's Occam XXV as a Bandcamp WAV. Wishing I jumped before the CD sold out

Two releases bunged together in recent Wire review section because they're both on Constellation and both quite 'disintegration of popsong' but also both are completely addictive and great:

Eric Chenaux: https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/album/say-laura

Kee Avil: https://keeavil.bandcamp.com/album/crease

Chenaux sounds great, thanks! Doesn't make sense to me why it was paired with the other, but oh well.

(If you like the Chenaux, you might like the Maria Elena Silva record from last year, 'Eros')

Very much into most of the tracks on this, will slowly investigate the individual artists:

https://www.touchtheplants.com/products/sound-wonders-lp
"Sound Wonders: A Series of Epics is the second compilation from Touchtheplants, the imprint and multidisciplinary creative environment founded by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Sean Hellfritsch (aka Cool Maritime)"

This record is absolutely insane
https://tophgateshead.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-cost-of-free-jazz

^ great stuff

Yeah, that Kenosist thing is great; I just filed a review for The Wire.

Jim O'Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi & Joe Talia
https://joetalia.bandcamp.com/album/patrick

😎

https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/disque-fragile-1-2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPbjiBnV0c&t=9895s

this record is wonderful from a couple of british composers:

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-ames-ben-corrigan-carbs/867157-01/

This is some weird neo-folk tribal percussion stuff, extremely for the heads. https://begayer.bandcamp.com/

Seriously, you guys :O

https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies

sounding great, thanks

been listening to the stuff from this thread for the last week or so... cool

i bought the tape of this one, nice lowkey release: https://tssstapes.bandcamp.com/album/nido

i got really into this chinese label earlier this year (dunno if i read about them on ilx or elsewhere), but this new release from them sounds great to me: https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/killed-as-time and i also really like the albums of beatles covers by mai mai also on their bandcamp

take it easy

great stuff ^

People had a lot of dunking to do on that famous Tone Glow article but there really is a whole metric shitton of ambient music out there right now

Ah, yeah, I liked the lilien rosarian. Recalled Fennesz, which is v welcome for me. I revisited Storring's My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell recently, which was pleasant. This one seems like it will be quite different.

Also got a new Mike Cooper record, but will comment on his thread.

there a mike cooper thread?
really liking forbidden delta planet blues

there is! just search his name.

yeah, that’s the one— been on repeat the past day or so, excellent record

Love Mike Cooper. Been blasting White Shadows In The South Seas in the car a lot over the years.

Is this where the Loraine James/Julius Eastman thing goes? She has never clicked for me before, but I'm loving it!

That record is shaping up to be real nice.

Lol I never know where anything goes. I want to post about the new Arp album New Pleasures, but it may be too beat-driven for this thread, not dancey enough for the re-deconstructed thread, and not internety enough for the RYM twenty-somethings thread. The whole album is full of beautiful slick City Pop-inspired synth goodness.

couple of records that have been on repeat for me

https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-magnesium-173

https://builenradar.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-no-hunger-in-your-shame

Anyone got any ideas for the new thread name

rolling deterministic aleatorics, institutionalized critique, and avant status quo thread

rolling Lydia Tár

shit imago hates 2023

rolling doses, theses, and feces 2023

ooh, what was that snarky tweet where it was like "It was cool to do hyper-real squelchy sounds because of the technology five years ago but now it's played out"

New thread:

rolling frankly annoying quirked up random ass sounds glooped onto a DAW 2023